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Daily View 2×2: 6 December 2009 – Rwandan peacekeepers killed in Darfur attack

It’s Sunday. It’s 7am. It’s time for the blogs and the news.

2 Must-Read Blog Posts

What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

  • The truth may not be out there after all: Peter Black reports on the Ministry of Defence winding down its UFO hunting activities. The fight on terrorism has been used to justify all sorts of policies, though the argument (made by someone Peter quotes) that UFO hunting is essential to the fight against terrorism is a new one to me.
  • ACPO U-turn on photographers and stop and search: But talking of absurdities done in the name of fighting terrorism, Carl Minns has welcome news on the police deciding that they’ve gone too far in stopping people taking photos.

Spotted any other great posts in the last day from blogs that aren’t on the aggregator? Do post up a comment sharing them with us all.

2 Big Stories

Harman attacks Tory tax break ‘for philanderers’
The Sunday Times reports:

HARRIET HARMAN is to accuse David Cameron of planning to reward philanderers on their second or third marriages with tax breaks, while stigmatising former wives left to bring up the children.

Two Rwandan peacekeepers killed in new Darfur attack

Two more Rwandan peacekeepers have been killed and one injured in Sudan’s Darfur region – the second deadly attack on the contingent in two days.

The soldiers were distributing water at a camp for the displaced on Saturday as gunmen in civilian clothes approached and opened fire, officials say.

On Friday, three Rwandan peacekeepers were killed and two injured in an attack on a convoy.

You can read the full story here.

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